Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Habakkuk 1:15
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Habakkuk1:15
15. they take up all of them--all kinds of fishes, that is, men, as captives, and all other prey that comes in their way.
with the angle--that is, the hook. Some they take up as with the hook, one by one; others in shoals, as in a "net" and "drag" or enclosing net.
therefore--because of their successes.
they rejoice--They glory in their crimes because attended with success (compare Ha 1:11).
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